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President Trump will meet with Main Street community bankers on Thursday to learn more about their difficulties in complying with the tougher Dodd-Frank financial regulations enacted after the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

China has granted preliminary approval for 38 trademarks linked to Donald Trump, documents on China's state trademark office show, giving the U.S. President and his family protection were they to develop the "Trump" brand in the market.

by Eric Martyn3/9/2017 10:49:38 AM

MORE: Pentagon declines to comment; it's unclear if proposal has support of Defense Secretary Mattis

by nigel.manuel3/8/2017 10:41:52 PM

EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration weighing deployment of up to 1,000 soldiers to Kuwait to serve as reserve force for Islamic State fight - U.S. officials

by nigel.manuel3/8/2017 10:40:23 PM

Demonstrators in New York City take part in the 'Day Without a Woman' march in favor of economic equality and against President Donald Trump's policies on abortion and healthcare.

New York Police Department officers detain organizer Tamika Mallory as she takes part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

ReutersA federal judge on Wednesday said the state of Hawaii could file an amended complaint against President Donald Trump's new executive order temporarily banning the entry of refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.

ReutersTwo senior senators asked the FBI and Justice Department on Wednesday for any information they have on President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

by elizabeth.culliford3/8/2017 10:16:00 PM

JUST IN: White House says there is no reason to believe that President Trump is the target of any investigation

U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Wednesday that they have been aware since the end of last year of a security breach at the CIA that led to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks publishing agency documents on its hacking tools.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that they believed that the documents published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday were authentic.

Investigators were focusing on CIA contractors as the likely source of passing materials to WikiLeaks, the officials said. The group published what it said were nearly 8,000 of pages of internal CIA discussions about hacking techniques used between 2013 and 2016.

In Germany on Wednesday, the chief federal prosecutor's office said that it would review the Wikileaks documents because some suggested that the CIA ran a hacking hub from the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt.

"We're looking at it very carefully," a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office told Reuters. "We will initiate an investigation if we see evidence of concrete criminal acts or specific perpetrators."

Reuters could not immediately verify the contents of the published documents, but several contractors and private cyber security experts said the materials appeared to be legitimate.

(Reporting by John Walcott and Yara Bayoumy in Washington and Matthias Sobolewski and Andrea Shalal in Berlin)

by elizabeth.culliford3/8/2017 6:16:39 PM

MORE: U.S. intelligence, law enforcement officials focus on contractors as likely source of leak

by nigel.manuel3/8/2017 5:57:17 PM

UPDATE: U.S. intelligence, law enforcement officials tell Reuters they have been aware since end of last year of CIA security breach that led to latest WikiLeaks dump.

by nigel.manuel3/8/2017 5:56:13 PM

U.S. Senators ask FBI, DOJ for any evidence of Trump wiretap

Two senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday asked the FBI and Justice Department for any information they have on President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor Barack Obama ordered wiretaps of him during last year's presidential campaign.

A potentially lengthy U.S. legislative fight over replacement of the Obamacare health law gets underway on Wednesday as two House of Representatives committees begin negotiating over changes to a Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump.

Women in the United States plan to use International Women's Day on Wednesday to stay off the job and stage demonstrations across the country in an effort to seize on the momentum built from the massive marches held a day after President Donald Trump's inauguration.

A government watchdog group, Public Citizen, said on Wednesday it will ask lawmakers to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn should have been subject to lobbying disclosure laws when he advised President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. biofuels program.

U.S. Senate Democrats, seeking to capitalize on growing disclosures about the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, urged a top Republican lawmaker on Tuesday to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns as a matter of national security.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan3/8/2017 10:12:58 AM

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee said on Tuesday he had seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump's allegation he was wiretapped by then-President Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign. Read more here

The state of Hawaii said it will ask a federal court on Wednesday for an emergency halt to President Donald Trump's new executive order restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries, becoming the first state to challenge the ban in court.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan3/8/2017 10:09:47 AM

President Donald Trump will nominate Washington lawyer Noel Francisco to be solicitor general, the government's top advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House said on Tuesday. Read more here

Faced with a growing test of resolve for a new U.S. president who vowed while campaigning to get tough on North Korea, Donald Trump's aides are pressing to complete a strategy review on how to counter Pyongyang's missile and nuclear threats.

ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Republican legislation to replace the Obamacare healthcare law but it faced a rebellion by conservative groups and lawmakers who denounced it, complicating its chances for passage in the U.S. Congress.

by Maria Caspani3/8/2017 12:34:13 AM

U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, and U.S. Representative Greg Walden hold a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

by david.lucas3/7/2017 10:25:18 PM

BREAKING: Trump to name Noel Francisco as solicitor general nominee - sources

by elizabeth.culliford3/7/2017 10:21:41 PM

JUST IN: Speaker Ryan says will have enough votes to pass Republican healthcare plan in House

by Maria Caspani3/7/2017 9:57:38 PM

Nunes says doesn't believe Russia meddled in U.S. election to help Trump.

by cassandra.garrison3/7/2017 9:33:05 PM

Nunes says there is no evidence at this point that Trump or associates were targeted by FBI or intelligence agencies.

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